Epikeratophakia | |
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ICD-9-CM | 11.76 |
MeSH | D017391 |
Epikeratophakia [1] (also known as epikeratoplasty and onlay lamellar keratoplasty[2]) is a refractive surgical procedure in which a lamella of a donor cornea is transplanted onto the anterior surface of the patient's cornea. A lamellar disc from a donor cornea is placed over the de-epithelialized host cornea and sutured into a prepared groove on the host cornea. Indications include treatment of keratoconus, refractive errors like myopia and high hypermetropia including aphakia, which cannot be corrected with conservative methods.[2]